RF Plasma Heating in Toroidal Fusion Devices

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1. Plasma Heating in Toroidal Fusion Devices.
• 1.1. Conditions for Energy Production in Quasistationary Systems.
• 1.2 Basic Concepts of Plasma Confinement in Tokamaks.
• 1.3. Experimental Research on Tokamaks.
• 1.4. Stellarators.
• 1.5. Plasma Heating Efficiency.
• 1.6. Specifications for Heating Techniques.
• 2. The Interaction of Electromagnetic Waves with Plasmas.
• 2.1. Basic Concepts and the Equations of Plasma Electrodynamics.
• 2.2. The Dielectric Tensor of Cold Plasmas.
• 2.3. Oscillations and Waves in Cold Plasmas.
• 2.4. Wave Propagation in Tokamaks in the Approximation of Geometric Optics.
• 2.5. Role of the Thermal Motion of Plasma Particles (k ? B0).
• 2.6. Transverse Spatial Dispersion (k ? B0).
• 2.7. Effect of Spatial Dispersion on Resonances.
• 2.8. Propagation of Waves with ? « ?? Be?. The Lower Hybrid Resonance.
• 2.9. Propagation of Waves with Frequencies ? ? ? Be and ? « ? Be.
• 2.10. Effect of Real Plasma Inhomogeneities on the Propagation of Waves in Toroidal Systems.
• 2.11. Distortion of the Distribution Functions of Charged Particles in the Field of a Monochromatic Wave.
• 2.12. Quasilinear Theory of Wave Damping.
• 2.13. Stochastic Ion Heating in the Lower Hybrid Resonance Frequency Range.
• 3. Electron Cyclotron Heating.
• 3.1. Basic Heating Schemes and Numerical Simulations.
• 3.2. Heating Techniques.
• 3.3. Experimental Results.
• 3.4. Summary of Research.
• 4. Lower Hybrid Heating.
• 4.1. Theoretical Model Ill.
• 4.2. Heating Techniques.
• 4.3. Experimental Studies.
• 4.4. Summary of Research.
• 5. Ion Cyclotron Heating.
• 5.1. The Physics of Wave Propagation for ? ? ? Be. Principal Heating Schemes.
• 5.2. Heating Techniques.
• 5.3. Experimental Studies.
• 5.4. Summary of Research.
• 6. Alfvén Wave Heating.
• 6.1. Physics of Alfvén Wave Heating.
• 6.2. Experimental Studies.
• 6.3. Prospects for Alfvén Wave Heating.
• 7. A Comparison of Plasma Heating Techniques.
• 7.1. Rf Heating.
• 7.2. Neutral Beam Injection.
• 7.3. Adiabatic Compression.
• References.